Bonaventura Francesco Cavalieri
1932; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics; Volume: 25; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.5951/mt.25.2.0093
ISSN2330-0582
Autores Tópico(s)Historical Philosophy and Science
ResumoCavalieri, a student of Galileo, a Jesuit priest, and professor of mathematics at Bologna, is known chiefly for his work with indivisibles and for the theorem called by his name. He might also be remembered as one who did much to make Napier's work with logarithms known in Italy. In the picture which forms the frontispiece of this issue of the mathematics teacher, reference is made to Cavalieri's discovery of the theorem for the area of a spherical triangle. The fact that Albert Girard had discovered the same theorem at about the same time does not imply that either was aware of the work of the other.
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